2023 Underground Art Market Report
Malak Mattar grew up painting and drawing. It’s how she coped with PTSD and processed the atrocities she regularly witnessed near her home in Gaza. In 2014, at age 14, Mattar began sharing images of her artwork online. Her fresh take on neo-romantic, post-impressionist portraiture soon …
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A T 5:44 P.M. ON FEB. 23, 2022, my phone lit up with a WhatsApp message from a stranger. “Hello Sean Williams,” he wrote. “I have something for you.” Seconds later, the stranger sent a link to a Spectrum 1 News interview with a retired …
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Nadya Tolokonnikova, an artist and activist, was placed on Russia’s most wanted list in March. Weeks earlier, she had released an irreverent short film entitled Putin’s Ashes, in which a group of women from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, dressed in lingerie and wearing red balaclavas, …
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Drunken cell parties, fights, stabbings, prison guards with faulty equipment out of their depth. Welcome to HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire, where staff Sky News has spoken to claim all these events have taken place, and one guard told us assaults on staff are “a …
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SINGAPORE – He did not see his young daughter for three years after he was arrested in 2014 and later jailed over vice offences, as his estranged wife did not want to take the girl to visit him in prison. It was through The Salvation …
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China’s government insists it is a “law-based country.” But in reality, China is governed by a secretive party-state that uses the law as a tool for political repression. In the case of prominent Uyghur ethnographer Rahile Dawut, the “law” has become a cover for injustice. …
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Freddy Taylor says serving time at the now-former Guelph Correctional Centre started out as a very dark period in his life, but ended with a renewed passion for life and art. Taylor, 78, was taken from his home in Curve Lake as a child and forced to go …
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In the basement of the Harvard Law School is a box containing the pages of the Angolite – an award-winning prison newspaper covering topics from prison policy to the societal cost of mass incarceration. The pages are filled with block print illustrations and showcase poetry …
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Lauren Pazienza was sentenced to 8½ years in state prison on Friday after shoving 87-year-old vocal coach Barbara Gustern to her death last year, according to multiple outlets including the New York Post and Newsday. On Aug. 23, the New York City woman pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree manslaughter …
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